Today is Tuesday, April 26, 2022,
April 26 is the 116th day of the year
249 days remain until the end of the year.
The sun rose at 6:19:27
and sunset will be at 7:56:41 PM.
We will have 13 hours and 37 minutes of daylight.
The solar transit was at 13:08:04.
The first low tide will be at 2:36 a.m. at 1.67 feet
The first high tide will be at 8:11 a.m. at 4.93 feet
The next low tide at 2:38 p.m. at 0.01 feet
and the last high tide at Ocean Beach tonight will be at 9:20 p.m. at 5.53 feet
The Moon is currently visible at 19.4%
a descending crescent
New Moon in 4 days on Saturday April 30, 2022 at 1:28 p.m.
There will also be a partial solar eclipse
Today it’s…
alien day
Audubon Day
Organize your day
Kiss a friend day
hug an australian day
National thesis day
National Horse Aid Day
National Children and Pets Day
National Pretzel Day
National Richter Scale Day
National Static Electricity Day
School Bus Drivers Day
world intellectual property day
Today is also…
Chernobyl Disaster Celebrations:
Chernobyl Tragedy Remembrance Day in Belarus
Memorial Day of Radiological Accidents and Disasters in Russia
Confederate Memorial Day in Florida
Union Day in Tanzania
On this day in history…
1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth unknown).
1777 – 16-year-old Sybil Ludington traveled 40 miles (64 km) to alert American colonial forces of approaching British regular forces
1803 – Thousands of meteor fragments fall from the sky over L’Aigle, France; the event convinces European scientists that meteors exist.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by the German Luftwaffe.
1954 – The first clinical trials of Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine begin in Fairfax County, Virginia.
1956 – SS Ideal X, the world’s first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey, for Houston, Texas.
1958 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue last run from Washington, D.C. to New York after 68 years, the first American passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1964 – Tanganyika and Zanzibar merge to form the United Republic of Tanzania.
1981 – Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world’s first open human fetal surgery.
1986 – The Chernobyl disaster occurs in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
1993 – Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on mission STS-55 to conduct experiments aboard the Spacelab module.
1994 – South Africa begins its first multiracial election, which is won by Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress.
2005 – Cedar Revolution: Under international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 military garrison troops from Lebanon, ending its 29-year military dominance over that country (Syrian occupation of Lebanon).
2018 – American comedian Bill Cosby is convicted of sexual assault.
2019 – Marvel Studios’ blockbuster film Avengers: Endgame was released, becoming the highest-grossing film of all time, surpassing Avatar’s previous box office record.
…and if today is your birthday, happy birthday! You are sharing this special day with…
121 – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor (died 180)
1785 – John James Audubon, French-American ornithologist and painter (d. 1851)
1798 – Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (d. 1863)
1822 – Frederick Law Olmsted, American journalist and designer, co-designed Central Park (died 1903)
1886 – Ma Rainey, American singer-songwriter (died 1939)
1889 – Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian-English philosopher and scholar (died 1951)
1912 – AE van Vogt, Canadian-American author (died 2000)
1914 – Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (died 1986)
1933 – Carol Burnett, American actress, singer and producer
1938 – Duane Eddy, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
1938 – Maurice Williams, American doo-wop/R&B singer-songwriter
1943 – Gary Wright, American singer-songwriter, keyboardist and producer
1958 – Giancarlo Esposito, American actor, director and producer
1961 – Joan Chen, Chinese-American actress, director, producer and screenwriter
1963 – Jet Li, Chinese-Singaporean martial artist, actor and producer
1965 – Kevin James, American actor and comedian
1970 – Melania Trump, Slovenian-American model; 47th First Lady of the United States
1980 – Channing Tatum, American actor and producer
1983 – Jessica Lynch, American soldier
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